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  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match ... . Today, I'd like to kick off the MIT Admissions World Cup Challenge. The ... each World Cup group, name the country from which MIT received the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Discover / Life and culture

  Athletics & recreation

  Center, which houses an Olympic-size swimming pool, a smaller teaching pool ... center Alumni Pool & Wang Fitness Center, featuring lap and instructional pools, a fitness floor with stationary machines and free weights, a
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  ribs I'd ever had in my life. My hunger tore through me. The world went ... Lila's recipe below! World's Best Ribs By Lila F. '13 This morning as I walked home from Kendall at 9:30AM, enjoying the sunshine and a hot cup of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  The World Cup Challenge was a lot of fun! No one got a perfect score, but on the whole, people did pretty well. Below are the results, with ... Korea would defeat Mexico in the World Cup Challenge final. Overall this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be ... . Sadly, Baggio missed the final penalty kick in the World Cup final match

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  Congratulations to Italy on their World Cup victory. The celebration ... an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine ... first trading day after a country's team is eliminated from the World Cup

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  went to Berlin for the World Cup finals! Things were appreciably crazy ... playing. World Cup or no World Cup, it's definitely an amazing city filled ... that we are also basically World Cup champions. All the Europeans just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  leaving the gates, the thought of being out in the world for several hours ... and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is ... photoshopped brochures. And they had a swimming pool! I stood close to the edge

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For home educators

  . Homeschooled applicants make up less than 1% of our applicant pool (and less than ... throughout the world who conduct interviews on behalf of MIT Admissions. We
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  announcements of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts. FIFA was not doing me a favor ... alarms, I reluctantly got up and made a cup of tea. (I bought a 100-pack of ... for my UROP, which involves modeling two road networks in Singapore (I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010

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  crucial for the successful future of our world to educate people from every ... excellence that placed them at the top of our applicant pool. But we strive for ... effectively in the world outside MIT: it opens their minds and attunes them both
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  hall. Upstairs, Burton 5 is actualizing models from The World Record ... say that the pool was highlighter-color (pink, yellow, and green), and ... climb the curved transient rock wall, and someone else is lighting cups on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Our selection process

  decision is correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the hulled version, 5.5 cups water to one cup for the other, cooking til water

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design ... ="don't add multiple tablespoons of salt! don't add four cups of water per cup ... on high heat. I use 1 bouillon cube per cup of water, but you can use

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019

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  Regular Action pools, and you will still qualify for our generous financial
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  What we look for

  Remember that there are many ways to make the world better—we're not looking for applicants to have cured all infectious disease in the world by the time they're 15. Tutoring a single kid in math changes the world
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  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... the heat down and add half a cup of one-minute oats and you stir ... in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Apply / Parents and educators

  How to write good letters of recommendation

  [intro]Because of our highly competitive applicant pool, letters of recommendation hold substantial weight in our admissions decisions. A well-written letter for an outstanding applicant can show impressive characteristics